Keep Opening Day parage intact, make adjustments

Let the mortals parade on Day 1. The pretenders, the arrivistes, the people who go to be Seen. A parade on Opening Day? That’s for amateurs. True Cincinnatians party on Day 4, Paul Daugherty writes.(Photo: The Enquirer/Cara Owsley)Buy Photo

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Is it really that difficult to reroute the parade so it doesn’t conflict with Findlay Market shoppers and shops?? How about bringing it down Central Parkway or Reading Rd.
Or start it at the Union Terminal parking lot? Opening Day is Opening Day.

Bob McElroy, Anderson

Trump administration stuck on coal

The current administration’s commitment to boosting coal illustrates their devotion to a campaign promise. A promise to needlessly jack utility bills to prop up a dying energy sector. A promise to stifle one of the fastest growing job sectors in the nation, renewable energy and efficiency. A promise to ensure we will continue to spend hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars reacting to climate disasters without addressing the cause. A promise to condemn millions more to die from air and water pollution. A promise to endanger the potential of our kids’ future. After all, the Koch brothers paid a lot of money for that promise, and the rest of us be damned, it will be kept.

Ren Englum, Hyde Park

Our city leaders deserve better than page one feature

I know the Enquirer editorial staff has already apologized for the cover of the Oct. 24 front page, but it really is hard to believe so many people missed how outrageous it was before it went to press. The cover would have been inappropriate even if no white Council candidates were involved because several of the African-American candidates had totally cleared up their tax issues. Why include them at all? But to find the photos of the white candidates buried on the third page was shocking. This was a huge miss on your part with potential political, racial and personal consequences. The people who are stepping up to take leadership positions in our city deserve better.

Lyn Martin, Clifton Heights

FC Cincinnati can learn from Columbus Crew SC

Regarding “Columbus Crew SC considers move to Austin": Columbus built a soccer-specific stadium for the Crew and they had trouble filling it. Now they are considering a move to Texas, leaving Columbus taxpayers in the lurch. FC Cincinnati is playing at the multipurpose Nippert stadium before record-sized crowds. Cincinnatians think three times before funding a Soccer-specific stadium out in the 'burbs. Will the fans travel to the burbs?

Bob Letourneau, West Chester Township

Let's fight FERC plan to raise energy prices

Thanks for reporting in 10/25 article that Energy Secretary Perry has proposed a plan to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission that would subsidize coal-fueled power plants. As stated this plan is opposed in the letter signed by five former FERC chairs (three Democrat and two Republican) saying the plan would inevitably raise electric prices. We need this kind of reporting so we can write our congressmen to pressure FERC not to approve this plan.

Bruce Yeazell, Finneytown

As president tweeted, Milania Trump fought bullying

First Lady Milania Trump met with middle school children to talk about the bad consequences of cyberbullying and alternative good behavior. The president tweeted that Senator Bob Corker of Tennessee “could not be elected dog catcher” if he chose to run again. You can’t make this stuff up.